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Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1931, Britain's Outlook,

From Other Pens.

Insurance Vanities.

A leading American Insurance magazino han just published the names of 391 American citizens who carry $1,000,000 worth over of life insurance,

or

The top five nre Pierre Samuel du

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1931.

PUREE DE POIS

By BESOMORO,

Pont, gun-powder manufacturer An Unusual Experience.

Wilium

($7,000,000), John C. Martin, of

A London woman, golling the Newspapers the Curtin-Martin

Fox, film other day, was hitting a brassle ($6,540,000), mingnate ($6,000,000), Herbert L. shot, when a rabbit dashed from a

hole a few yards in front. ($6,000,000), Dillon, atockbroker and Marshall Field, dry goodsman ball struck the rabbit in the neck

and killed it.. ($5,500,000).

This reminds me of an unusual

I admire the ingenuity of the American

The

scented with a delicate perfume, in future. The idea, I understand, is not a new one. The Ancients Special the same thing.

odours were used for cach variety

and to kill the proper mood of book to put the reader in the odours of glue and leather,

If the idea takes on, in course

Insurance magazine Injexperience which came my way, of time, Lily of the Valley and trying to stimulate competition for few years ago in Calcutta. It was Ella Wheeler Wilcox, may become synonymous, Lavender and John the honour of being the heaviest-at tennis, I was serving, when a

sparrow happened to fly across the Galewarthy allied, Eau de Cologno Insured man in the world.

It

Such a competition would be im-court at what is usually termed associated with Anatole France, and Formalin with Bertrand Rus

A possible in this country. There are the "psychological moment."

was an unfortunate soment for sell or Huxley, and so on. several Britons who carry heavy!

the bird.

And how our sense great Ideal I wonder if readers, who have of smell will be developed. And life insurances, but I doubt if the

our public library, so greatly in amount is on anything like the American scale.-Evening Standard. any such "unusual experiences" to

relate, would care to send them disfavour to-day, may become a along to me for publication.

place worth sitting in.

Mad Wager.

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A Landen Ronald Story.

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Are you a Whitler?

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Fame. is not always what is seems, as this story shows It was! told by Sir Landon Ronald recently! at a literary luncheon.

He was attending some function sponge having successfully fulfill-who believes himself to be tha

made

human embodiment of a canary at a West-end hotel which he rarelyjed the terms of a wager visited, and the cloak-room atten-with a fellow house surgeon. He A fellow who, unconsciously, of dant, instead of giving him a ticket, was dared to cross in a bath tub course, makes life unbearable for one of the large everybody in the house and out- said, "That's all right, air. I know Bathurst Basin,

est of Bristol's docks, using only gide it at his bath time. If you you well."

was pleased with this recogni- his hands as paddles. Under cover are such a person, then read, tion," said Sir Landon, "and when I of darkness, the "navigator" set mark, learn and inwardly "digest over his what Dr. Charles G. Shaw, Pro- came to go I acted indulgently to- put with the bath tub

ehoulders, launched it and took fessor of Philosophy at New York wards this member of my public.

University, has to say: "But I had not walked far down two hours to cross the dock. the street when a scrap of paper Bravo! some, will say, Lest any fluttered out of my hat. I picked of Hong Kong's "gay sparks" written, "Bald, essay to emulate the Bristol sur- it up. On it was large nose, ugly."-Daily Telegraph. geon, let me add, that I shall be

far less complimentary.

A Bristol hospital surgeon has

I don't mean an admirer of the won a pair of gloves and a loofah famous painter. I mean a fellow

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Ing." Inferior, etc.! (Learn and inwardly digest).

I expect to be able to record, In

a short time, a marked decrease in the habit of whistling in Hong Kong.

la on his first visit here, paid an official call on His Excellency the Governor to-day. The Houston will stay here until November 29.

"Whistling is an unmistakablo sign of

moron." Moron! (Rend). "Whistlers are not try ing to create music, but to release emotion. They are voicing their has already brought about some

low mentality and confessing their sence of defeat." Low mentality! rise in wholesale prices, there is A Matrimonial Smash,

Let those who object to the use Flood's Flood of Wives.

"We have often heard, Some men never know when (Mark).

used, the expression 'he no. cause at present for fearing] any upward rush, in the cost of of confetti at weddings take com-

fort from one thing that they are they are well off, and some never or living. No reason for alarm not living in Thuringia, where it is learn from experience, as good a whistled to keep his courage up." to throw teacher

as she is reputed to be. That is just it, except that there Is more in the crude act of exista, then, in Britain's suspen-apparently the custom

instead of con- From Oakland, California, comes

than the artificial On cups and saucers With the new National Gov-sion of the gold standard. ernment now hard at work, those the other hand, there is no Buffetti. "Usually," we are told in a the story of Norman Flood, who whistling

telegram from Berlin, "friends of admitted to having "married" 29 afirmation of bravery. It is only Good going!the inferior, maladjusted indivi- dual who seeks emotional relief of us overseas who are far de-ficient basis for supposing that, the couple gather outside the wives in 20 years.

and celebrate the He is now in prison, serving a

in such a birdlike act as whistl tached from Home politics may merely as a consequence of that bride's house

by the smashing

zentenco for bigamy. Obviously a the likely atill speculate on

step, British trade is about to occasion

crockery."

The precise signific throw back from the Ark-lac age. course of events and the creation enter immediately on a period of

aace of this ritual is not mentioned, of policies most suited to the great and lasting prosperity. but the throwing of riea or confetti Scented Books.

An American publisher has an- eventual restoration of British

True, the relative cheapness of is sometimes explained as an omen

that his books will be destruction of table utensils is In-nounced financial and commercial pros- the pound will tend to some ex- of plenty, so possibly the wholesale opulent an even more perity. A striking article, which tent to check imports and to tended as

wealth and riches. should have some reassuring render more attractive the pur-gesture of

Chan Sze-king, manager of the Admiral M. M. Taylor, Comman- effects in view of the prevailing chase abroad of British goods. After all, the standard of living] uncertainty in some quarters, ap- But such effects must be limited must be fairly high in a neighbour Man Yick Loong Rice shop, 113 Con-der-in-Chief of the American Asia- hood which can afford to smash up pears in the Monthly Review of while exchange rates are subject a dinner service or two every time naught Road West, reports that his tie Squadron, arrived here yesterday 8 last. It has since been discover the Squadron. Admiral Taylor, who the Midland Bank, of which Mr. to wide and violent fluctuation. a wedding takes place. Or the con- accountant absconded on November on the U.S.S. Houston, Flagship of Reginald M'Kenna is chairman. Further, what is needed far more vention may be regarded in Thur

Ingia as some sort of emphasis fored, he states, that on various dates The article, which no doubt than the capture of trade from the matrimonial vows of the bride between the months of May and expresses the considered views export competitors is a recovery and bridegrom-even as a Chinese November this year, he had collect

As a matter of this eminent financier, states of buying power in potential oath is completed on occasion by the ed $1,262.52 on account of the firm. that Britain's departure from markets through a world-wide breaking of a saucer.

of fact, and without reference to the gold standard, under rise in prices. British trade can- the exact intention of the ritual, it force majeure, was the proxim- not thrive while world trade seems to have led to oaths of a less ate result of developments out-languishes. Halancing one thing sacred character In modern Thur- ingle. In the town of Camburg, the

The forthcoming marriage is side Britain. The increasing with another the position of Bri-practice has now been forbidden;

Warder, Omeers' difficulties of debtor nations, tain may legitimately be viewed it "has caused such havoc to motor announced of James Henry Hew Mess, staggering under the growing with calm and confidence, though car tyres that the authorities have

the town is liable to make good the 24, Village Road, Happy Valley, weight of debt service; the not with excited optimism. There bean compelled to intervene, since Victoria Jail, and Leak Strelley, of reactions upon the trade of credi- is no ground for panic, nor even damage," There, again, is a note

Mr. H. C. Shrubsole, of the tor countries, the breakdown of pessimism. The condition of the of comfort for those who object to the system of International long world is in all truth serious, but our, more insular usage confetti Nestle & Anglo-Swies Milk Co mean new tyres for every car that which is proceeding Home via the term lending; and the failure of Britain is in no worse state than may make a mess, but it does not left to-day by the s.8. Patroclus;

passes the scene of the wedding usual ports. co-ordinated action for relief: all most other countries.

Mr. Dwight F. Davis, Governor- these were responsible for a The banking organ quoted breakfast. Among other advantages

things rather easier for the bridal General of the Philippines, arrived strain on the world's principal above concludes:We still have the new regulations ought to make monetary centre which no me unrivalled connections and ex-couples of Camburg. In the recent here yestadey on the s.s, President

People who want to participate chanism yet devised could with- perience; our national economic past they must have had to set out Lincoln on which he is proceeding stand. Britain is the world's equipment and resources stand for the honeymoon on foot, for how to the United States on furlough. In the decorations and fllumina- station when it was impossible to Sir William Peel at Government of the Prince of Wales are request- as a financial centre, she was ined by the departure from the drive up to the house with tyres House, and continued his journeyed by an advertisement appearing elsewhere to communicate at once the ordinary course of business gold standard; our public finances intact-Manchester Guardian.

with Mr. C. Montague Ede, of No. a heavy debtor on short-term ac- bear

Dame Adelaide Anderson, noted, 3 and 4 Queen's Buildings, stating lanterns ther count. Her liquid resources, with other countries in that

social worker, passed through Hong the number of ample, in all but the most abnor-forces tending toward excessive

Kong yesterday on the s.s. Patro- require. The executive committee elus on her return from the Pacific which is arranging the details in mal world conditions to meet inflation have, been brought un-1 Indeed, our currently maturing claims, beder strict control,

The lowest open air temperature Conference in Shanghai, and was a connection with the Prince's visit 66 degrees. The guest at dinner at Government wish to have an organised scheme came largely frozen as the out-departure from the gold standard yesterday was

Anderson's first visit to China 'as it will be well to get a large stock come of general economic dis- may well represent the turning humidity was 66 at 10 am and 66 House last night. This is not Dame of decoration and it is thought that

point from world slump to world at 4 p.m.

she was a member of the Foreign of lanterns from Japan or some Offico Delegation to China' in 1926, where and distribute them from She, recently published a book Mr. Ede's office to those who order

Humanity and Labour in China." | thom.

kett,

Personal Pars.

To-day's Thought.

With but little persuasion some

change the opinion of a life time. people would try to make you

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China Mail" of

November 24, 1921.3

To-day's dollar is worth 2/8%.

strongest creditor country; but, at a high level and are unimpair.could a taxicab take them to the He was the guest of His Excellency tions on the occasion of the visit

turbance.

favourable comparison

News in Brief.

Yet Britain remains tremen-recovery, for, to mention only

Suffering from the after-effects dously strong. True, the balance one ground for this possibility, it of lysol poisoning, alleged to have of her international payments intensifies the obvious and urgent been self-administered, a woman, and receipts on current account necessity for international colla Yu Tuk-fung, aged 21 years, and living at 511, Shanghal Street, was has been running against her; boration to restore order and yesterday removed to the Govern-

monetary ment Civil Hospital. but this process will naturally be efficiency In checked by the fall in the ex-

affairs."

Suffering from head and bodily ternal value of sterling. Imports Up to a point these views are injuries, through being knocked will be deterred, and exports eminently reassuring. We still down by a motor lorry at the THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION. atimulated. On capital account, await international collaboration junction of Tung Le Wan Road and (22)) of 29 Jardine's Bazaar, bas too, relief should naturally folto the fullest possible degree be- Whitfield Road, Lan Muk-chang, low. And, although the fall in fore we can regard ourselves as been removed, to the Government

Civil Hospital. the external value of sterling out of the wood.

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